Hôtel de Ville, Paris
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The Hôtel de Ville is the city hall of Paris, France, standing on the Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville – Esplanade de la Libération in the 4th arrondissement. The south wing was originally constructed by Fra
Main frontage of the Hôtel de Ville in April 2017
Engraving by Theodor Josef Hubert Hoffbauer (1885) showing how he envisioned the Hôtel de Ville in 1583
The Hôtel de Ville and the Place de Grève, Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet, c. 1753
The Hôtel de Ville on the Verniquet atlas, 1780s
Semaine sanglante
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The semaine sanglante was a weeklong battle in Paris from 21 to 28 May 1871, during which the French Army recaptured the city from the Communards. This was the final battle of the Paris Commune.
Hôtel de Ville, Paris
…by Henry IV and Louis XIII between 1605 and 1628. It was burned by the Paris Commune, along with all the city archives that it contained, during the Semaine Sanglante, the Commune's final days, in May 1871. The outside was rebuilt following the original design, but larger, between 1874 and 1882, while the inside was…
Fight for the barricade on Rue Saint-Antoine (25 May)
The Prussians favored the offensive against the Commune. Here, a Prussian battery at the fort of Aubervilliers, pointed at Paris. Photo by Alphonse Liébert.
The Commune leaders with the destroyed Column of the Place Vendôme
Louis Charles Delescluze, military commander of the Commune